Who We Are
Dan Solomon, Chief Executive Officer
Dan Solomon is CEO of the interactive communications firm Virilion and leads the company in all its marketing and business development activities and sets the firm’s general strategic direction.
As a leading expert in the communications industry for the last 20 years, Dan is frequently asked to speak to industry groups and non-technical professionals nationwide about integrating Internet techniques into communication strategies. In order to put all these theories and thoughts into place then, he has co-authored his first book, Media Rules! Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience which was released in December 2007 and published by Wiley. Dan was most recently quoted in an ABC World News report on the Microsoft Yahoo buyout.
Dan serves on numerous boards including: the Public Affairs Council, the Mid-Atlantic Council of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History as well as the Advisory Board for the College of Charleston’s Communications Department. Dan is also founder of the Politics Online Conference now hosted by George Washington University and, in 2003, was selected to the “MindShare” Class, an exclusive, by invitation only program for CEOs of the most promising, high tech, start-up companies in the Greater Washington Metropolitan region.
Prior to joining Virilion, formerly known as Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, Dan was publisher of nationaljournal.com, National Journal Group’s “members only” Web site and general manager of National Journal’s Daily Briefings Group, which includes The Hotline, CongressDaily and National Journal’s Technology Daily.
In 1999, Dan held a political appointment with the U.S. Department of Commerce and for five years worked in senior legislative positions in the United States Senate for Senator Harris Wofford (D-PA) and Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI). Dan has also worked in a variety of capacities on state-wide political campaigns across the country. He also practiced commercial law with the firm of Hale and Dorr and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri. Dan is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota Law School. Dan and his wife, Laura Dove, daughter Abigail and son Jacob live in Alexandria, Virginia.